Germany’s second largest transport company, Netinera Deutschland, has ordered 63 Coradia Lint regional trains from Alstom in a deal worth around 300 million euros.
The new trains will run between Frankfurt and Saarbrücken and Koblenz and Kaiserslautern from December 2014, operating in the Southwest Diesel network.
Mauro Moretti, CEO of the Italian State Railways, Ferrovie dello Stato (FS), Netinera Deutschland GmbH’s parent company, said: “The acquisition of these new trains from Alstom gives the growth potential from Netinera on the German market an important impulse and is a big step for the group Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane to embrace the challenges in Europe – from the railway operating perspective as well as for the technical know how.”
The new fleet of Coradia Lint trains will be manufactured at Alstom’s Salzgitter site in Germany.
Dr Martin Lange, chairman of the board at Alstom Germany, signed the contract at the InnoTrans rail industry show in Berlin.
President of Alstom Transport Henri Poupart-Lafarge said: “We are delighted to sign our first contract with Netinera Deutschland. With more than 700 regional trains sold over the past 15 years, we provide our customers and their passengers a proven, comfortable and environmentally friendly means of transport.”
